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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09
ACTIVE VOLCANO IN MEXICO
A Geologist Says There Is Nothing Sur
prising in the Sonora Eruption,
But 1t Is Very Surprising that the Soil of the
Great Republic Has No Active Volcanoes
Items of General Washington News.
AMERICAN VOLCANOES.
The Eruption i'm Mexico-Extinct Volcanoes
in the United States.

The Eruption i'm Mexico-Extinct Volcanoes
in the United States.
WASHINGTON. June 8.-'tThere is nothing in
trinsicay improbable in these statements" said
Capt Clarence E. Dutton, United States army.
chief of the Bureau of Volcanic Geology, to an
Associated Press reporter who called his atten-
ton to the dispatch received this morn
ing announcing a great volcanic erup-
ton in Sonora ION the contrary, ~
he said. SIT is matter of surprise that we have
not had some volcanoes in our own territory
within the historic period-or rather that we
have not had more, for it is now known that
Mount Saint Helens, in Washington Territory.
was in a state of activity and sent out large guam
titles of lava and ashes late as 1843. There
have been, beyond doubt, many volcanic out
breaks within the territory now our own
not further back than few CEN
turtles. 1 specify from memory, as
bearing remarkable evidences of recent OCCUR
renee, several localities where violent eruptions
have taken place. Ono is near Fillmore in
Utah; another at the base of Mount Trumbull
on the border of the Grand Canon; third near
Fort Stanton New Mexico, near the Texas line,
and another at Grant Station on the
Atlantic. & Pacific railway, sixty or
seventy miles west of Albuquerque. There
are many others In southern Arizona.
1 have myself seen a piece of lava in which
was imbedded fragment of Indian pottery.
showing that the outflow subsequent the
occupation of the country by the Indians; and
two years ago vissed extinct volcano in
northern California which SO recent that
some of the trees killed by the heat had not en-
tirely rotted away"
will the geological survey send any one to
study these new phenomenal
lit cannot. Under the rulings of the comp
troller. our work must be confined within the
borders of the United States. We have been
gathering data of the Sonora earthquake MAY
81. which gave birth to this new volcano, and we
have received from all the affected parts of this
country about hundred reports on
the subject-enouch, we hope, to
establish the comparative magnitude
Of the occurrence. and give a knowledge of the
directions and violence Of tho wave Its centre
seems to have been about sixty sixty five
miles south of our Arizona line. in Mexico Its
limits comprehended about two-tnirds each of
the territories of New Mexico and Arizona. 1t
was not comparable in violence or extent to the
Charleston earthquake"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

the first clause Of the crimes bill came before
the House. 1t then consisted of twenty-four
lines, but when passed through the committee
stage it had nearly hundred and twenty
lines. "What does that shown said Mr..
Gladstone. Why, that the government did
not know how to draft or conduct their bill
1t shows that so many faults were hit, so
many weak points discovered, many gaps
had to be dealt with, that with all their magnif-
cent majority of sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety
and hundred they were obliged to let the
clause expand from thirty flour lines into some
thing like four times that number" A very
ingenious argument that, and good one, too,
1t shows that the obstruction policy" was
well directed and fruitful of results.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

in day or two The defendants counsel
base their expectation of favorable decision
purely on technical grounds, though they
admit that if the court decides the case on its
equities the verdict of the jury in the lower
court will be firmed. One of the prisoners
lawyers said he thought it possible that the
court might view the case upon its merits,
rather than its legal rights, and, therefore, say:
This crime was committed; we have the
right to affirm this finding, and in our opinion
the man deserves the penalty" and upon that
reasoning waive the alleged errors and affirm
the decision. That is just what the court
ought to do in this and in all similar cases,
unless the errors are substantial ones, and did
absolute injustice to the defendant. The
laws should be administered in the inter-
ests of society," rather than of criminals.
There is great and growing need of courts
that can rise above legal bubbles and techni-
oalifiaS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

THE political parties of the United States
and their subdivisions are a source of great
mystifcation and confusion to foreigners in
general, and on this account the wonder grows
the more the case is considered, that OBrien,
trap set for him by the Henry George faction.
1t will presently dawn upon the comprehen-
sion of considerable number of deluded
Irish-American citizens that the fight against
landlordism in their native country is by no
means synonymous with the claim for q COM
mon ownership in land
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

IT is fact, and everyone who has paid in
a dollar to local gas companies knows it to be
the fact, that such companies have been
formed and organized, in the interest of the
city, to find natural gas, rather than for the
purpose of bringing the gas into the corpora
ton for use. The great object was to ascer-
tain if Indianapolis was in or near the gas
fields. All this was in the interest of the
city and the community, rather than in the
interest of the subscribers to the stock. No
one, so far as heard from, subscribed more
than he was willing to lose, and it is doubtful
if the stock of every one of the subscribers
could not now be obtained for even less than
the amount paid in, the purchaser paying out
tha halanca
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

THE latest line of attack on foreign cap
ital is that it "has more than one line of
procedure" This dreadful charge is brought
by the Evening News against the Standard
Oil Company. The fact that this is the only
responsible company ready to pipe gas to In
dianapolis, and that it is trying to pare down
and smooth away the difficulties raised by
the croakers and obstructionists, lays it open
to their attacks. If it had only one line of
procedure it would be attacked for that, and
because it has tried to shape things to suit the
shifting dog-in-the-manger policy that is
really opposed to the introduction of gas on
any terms, it is attacked for that. The
Journal has no interest in the Standard
Oil Company, but it has in the city
of indianapolis. 1t cares nothing as to who
its being brought. What we demand and
what the interests of the city demand is that
an ordinance be passed under which some
thoroughly responsible company will under
take to pipe gas to the city. The people who
opposing this are representing interests
that are opposed to the introduction of gas
under any circumstances. They advocate the
policy of delay which, when every other sug
gestion fails, says, '1f need be can get an
enabling act from the Legislature, and supply
ourselves with gas" 1t will be a very cold
day, and very long one, when indianapolis
gets gas on that line. Getting gas by an en-
abling act of the Legislature is but another
phase of getting gas by town meeting. 1t is
the old story of building coal road with last
years coal bills
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09
Conaition of NIT Corcoran

WASHINGTON, June 6.-The condition of Mr.
Corcoran to-day Is unchanged. He had a most
comfortable night and was bright and cheerful
upon awakening this morning He ate good
breakfast, and during the day relished the diet
prescribed by his physicians. consisting of tea,
toast, broth. champagne and settler water. He
is surrounded by his relatives, and talks freely
of his business interests and his illness Drs.
Haener and Lincoln called about o'clock this
morning and again az 10 o'clock. They both say
their patient is doing splendidly and seem much
encouraged by his condition. Many callers were
at the house to-day. aud kilograms and letters
from solicitous friends continued to pour in.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

THE Eastern question, the Irish question,
the Indian question, and the ''What-is-so-
rare-as-a-day in-June" question, seem to mon
opolize the the attention of our esteemed con-
temporary, the News. Can it not forego these
long enough to tell the public its real position
on the subject of the introduction of natural
gasf Now, honest, would it accept gas at the
hands of foreign capital" under any possible
circumstances
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09
weeding-out Process postponed.

II.
WASHINGTON. June s. = The Civil-service
Commissioners have not yet begun their great
act of welding the departments of the relatives
of officials, which was promised by Commits
sioner Oberly some weeks ago. There ex-
cellent reasons for believing that the operation
has been indefinitely postponed. 1t appears that
Department. has become alarmed and that he
has asked the Civi-service Commissioners to
refrain from proceeding fu rther than to mako
the threat He is said to have at least FIVE rela-
tives in his department, and it is charged that
one, aunt. spends hen time in running
boarding house, and that she only makes her ap-
pearance at the department pay days. This
lady. it is said, draws annual salary of ST. 400.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

THE st. Louis public is considerably excited
over the anticipated decision of the Supreme
The case became celebrated on account of the
mystery of the murder and the dramatic
incidents attending the pursuit, arrest and
trial of the alleged murderer. After an ex-
attorneys, as usual, appealing to the Supreme
Court. The decision of this court is expected
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

TALKING about respecting and serving local
companies in the natural-gas business, how
long would it take foreign company, or a
single individual, to purchase the stock of the
present gas companies on even very slight
advance on the sum paid and to be paid on the
subscriptions Grant said, "Let US have
peace" The people of Indianapolis say, let
US have natural gas for heating and manu-
featuring purposes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

Ex-coNFEDERATE COLONEL JOHNSON has
no more regard for a labor union man now,
than he had for loyal Union man in Ken
lucky or Tennessee during the late war. The
estimate in which he held and was held by
Union men and Union soldiers during the war
may be ascertained by inquiry of some Union
soldiers; for instance, the Journal would refer
to Gen. John T. Wilder, former colonel Seven
teanth Indiana.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09
General and Personal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, June 8-James O'Neil of
Muncie, is here on his way home from the East
A. Mcknight of Indianapolis, is at the Eb-
bitt
A. j. Cory. of Ohio, Third Assistant Examin-
in the Patent Office, has resigned.
competitive examination for postofice in
speetors will be held here June % Forty-s seven
applications are on file, and only thirty positions
are 20 be filled
Mr. Jay Gould, his wife and three children
in the city. They arrived on the steam
yacht ATLANTA, last evening
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

A MUNC1E man is reported as saying that
he could furnish Indianapolis with natural
gas fuel, with which to supply their stoves,
for IS cents per month, lay twenty miles of
pipe, and make a good profit. If the man
from Muncie will put up the money, or give
bond for the performance of his contract, he
is the man Indianapolis is looking for. VIII
this man from Muncie please rise and give
his name and the name of his bankerg
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

THE Journal prints in full the celebrated
circular of Chairman Carnahan, which the
Forgers' Own, in the Office of the district
attorney, pompously declined to allow to be
seen. We trust everybody will read it care
fully. The Journal will pay suitable reward
for any one who will pick out the indictable
sentence, or phrase, or paragraph in it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09
Indiana Pensions.
Washington special.
Pensions have been issued to the following

Washington special.
Pensions have been issued to the following
named Indianlans:
Katharine. widow of William Lowater Seymour;
America widow of Perry West Freelandville; John
Keys indianapolis: Thomas H Hayden, Shoals: John
Vanasdal Logansport, Preston Lawson. Marion; Wm
Kidwell Demingi Henry Rudolph. Lawrenceburg
jeremiah Phillips. Lafayette Henry Murphy, Etna
Green; James Rogers Nashville; Jonathan Smith
Chestnut Ridge; Wesley A. Malcolm Paris Crossing;
Allen Jackson Bloomington; Lewis Hoffman, Sharps
ville John Lungenfeld Fort Wayne; William Gelley.
ton Danville; Robert Campbell. Peru; Hiram Melon
aid. Portersville; VIM Garrett. Little York; John
Lemons Gosport; Brewer Firk Friendship; MILFORD
Fields Marysville; adam Better. Oswego; VIM. Mil
Ter Murray; Jesse Mcbride, Indianapolis; Hamilton
Hesker Huron; John Neal, Sullivan Eli baker New
Philadelphia; Palen Jackson. Millport; Ida Shafer
Lafayette; Leander Barrister, Seymour; Asbury W.
Ray, Paramount.
Increase-Ambrose Nickles. Mitchell; Elisha Wood
ruff Frankfort; John Jackson. New Albany; Fred K.
Haverly Yockey; John Hendricks, Monroe; VIM. r.
Riley. Patriot; Norrna an Storms. Graudview
Reissue-John w. Canary. New Lebanon
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09
Death of Mr.. w. C. Grubb.

Mr. William C. Grub, the well-known in
surance agent, died at his home on North Illinois
street yesterday morning. He had been in deli
cate health for many months, and about two
weeks ago, while participating in procession of
the members of the Order Of the Iron Hall, at
Columbus. O., he had a slight sunstroke, which
FRUSTRATED him, and from which he never rallied
Mr.. Grub fifty-nine years of age, and a
wife and four children survive him. The
funeral will be on Friday probably in tho after.
noon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

LARRY DONOVAN. who gained brief noto
riety in New York by jumping from the Brook
lyn bridge, is working the same trick in Lon
don, where, the other day. he leaped from Lon
don Bridge into the Thames. The distance was
seventy feet, only half the height of Brooklyn
bridge, but quite enough to paralyze the Lon
doners. Donovan jumped into sixteen feet of
water, and when he swan ashore and was col
Jared by the police he showed them medal on
his breast bigger than their badges, and said:
Its not case of suicide. There's no use Of
arresting I'm the champion diver and
swimmer of America" He should have added,
and the champion The man was yesterday
arrested and taken before the Bow-street Police
Court for disorderly conduct. He is likely to find
that EN- gland does not indulge freaks"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

COLONEL JOHNSON not only does not regard
the rights, privileges, even the health Of
the citizens of Indianapolis, but he shows his
contempt for them by dragging his night
carts, containing dozen or more wagon-loads
of ofal from his street-car stables, through ILL
nois and Washington streets at midday, in
these hot, sweltering days, out to his farm
near Irvington. Hold your. nose when you
see the cart.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

sum five years ago, when lots were doomed IN
that particular locality, and the log cabin cost
about $780, 1t has an outlook over the entirs
city and far down the Potomac and the poet,
when he built it, intended to make 1t his perma-
nent residence. But his restless spirit soon
tired of even this beautiful spot and that and
new association with Western magazine drew
him once more toward the Golden Gate, and
Washington will know him more. The log
cabin is occupied for the summer by Assistant
Secretary of State Adee. an old bachelor, who
loves solitude and nrimitixa simnlicitY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

LONDON Truths "Girls Gossip" finds Buffalo
Bill highly picturesque being, with his red.
brown complexion and his dark hair falling low
on his neck as he sits on his superb gray horse,
undisguised homage, due to beauty and royalty
combined. when he meets her driving in the
park-she in her faultless English toilet, he on
but What will ''Madge" say when Capt jack
Crawford, Clusters poet scout, comes to London
he who dresses superbly as the Prince OF
Wales, but in the Wild West picturesque style
that she finds so charmingl
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

THE News has said, 1--WE have the best
street-car service in the country" or words to
that effect. Yet even the News does not
want the street-car service around the Cover
nor's Circle, nor along the main front of the
State-house. No, city fathers. Forbid that
we have any more street-car service Of the
kind we now have. The people all know
when they have enough of this service.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09
JOAQUIN Miiler's Cabin Sold.

Washington Special.
Very quietly, during the past week, the charm
ing little log cottage of the poet Joaquin Miller,
situated at the head of Sixteenth street. on
Meridian Hill, was sold for So 100 to Richard c.
Dulvis. The sale was not known to the public
before the record of the deed yesterday. The
ground alone cost Mr.. Miller almost the above
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

Two young English ladies, living at Dresden,
recently went to Berlin on a visit. ana, WIS ne
to make the most of their time, wrote to the
Chancellor, expressing their fervent Wish to see
him; whereupon they received an invltation 70
his palace, where they were most kindly re-
ceived A servant took them through the pal
ace and showed them everything OF interest.
with which they were. of course, greatly de-
lighted. their 10Y eliminating when Prince Bis
marck himself suddenly appeared and addressed
them most kindly in fluent English, walking
with them for some time IN the garden before
bidding them farewell.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

IN his great speech at Swansea, Mr.. Glad
stone referred to the Tory cant about Irish
obstruction in Parliament. What he said
adefense of the course pursued by the opposi-
ton. He said the so-called gigantic engine
of obstruction" had first come into play when
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

HERR SEIDL and Mr.. Stanton, of the Ma
tional Opera Company, have gone to Bayreuth
to conclude a contract for the production of
Wagner's lyric dramas in America 1t would
be well if they could also enter into a contract
with their leading tenors to meet with no dis
tressing accidents" while on the road.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

A NUMBER of cities are having trouble of
enc sort or another with their street-car serv-
ice, but, so far as the Journal can discover,
Indianapolis is alone in being afflicted with
transfer car. No other city, either, is ridden
by single corporation; all the rest have adj
nitted rival companies, and enjoy the benefits
of counnptition
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09
THAT DREADFUL LETTER
At Last Copy of the Circular Issued hS
General Carnahan Is Pounds
But 1t Is No Easy Matter to Find in 1t Anls
thing That Can Be Construed as
q Violation of Law.

At last copy of the printed circular, which
General Carnahan indicted by the federal
grand jury for sending out to Republican COM
mitteemen and others, shortly before the cleo
ton last fall, has turned up. General Carnahan
was unable to find a copy Of it among his
papers, and called at the district attorneys
Office and asked to the one on file there but
Leon Bailey, the deputy district attorney. re-
fused TO allow the circular to be seen
by anyone, for the reason, he said,
that he might as well disclose to General Car
nahan "all the evidence against him." Ex-Al-
derman Talentire. day or two ago, found .
copy of the letter among his papers and brought
it to the Journal The public can well judge
what the character of the evidence against Gen.
Carnahan is from a perusual Of the document,
which is given in full below
HEADQUARTERS OF MARION COUNTY RE.
PUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09
The Fourth Indiana District. :

Washington Special to Louisville Courier-Journal.
Some doubt is expressed by the intimate friends
of Judge Holman to whether he will be a can
didate for denomination to Congress next year.
In any event, VIM. Bracken, the present clerk
OF Franklin county, the largest Democratic
county in the district will be a candidate against
Holman. Judge Cravens, Of jefferson county,
viii enter the race if his health will permit
Should Judge Holman announce himself out Of
the race. then DR.. Wooden, of Switzerland county.
whom 1t Is said Holman shelved here in the
Land ONCE, will be one of the contestants for
the honor Judge Homans friends and enc
mics ooth VIII erceavor 10 get him into the
guoernatorlal race, with view of getting him
out OF the field in Indiana it is believed that
four years as Governor top Of his present
term as Congressman would put him on the
superannuated list of Indiana politicians But
he will be on the superaunuated list before he is
Governor, and he will never be Governor Of
Indiana
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

Ex-Governor HoADLY, of Ohio, assures
Philadelphia interviewer that the reported
opposition of the Grand Army of the Republic
to President Cleveland does not amount to
much. With all due regard for the word of
this old soldier and eminent warrior, the Jour-
nal must respectfully insist that Ex-Governor
Hoadly is not authorized to speak for the G.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

Hon. WIl.L CUMBACK is in receipt of almost
daily invitations from various points for adj
dress on the Fourth of July. For two months
he has been engaged to be at Macedonia, Ia, on
that day, and. therefore. it will be impossible
for him to answer any of the calls being made
by his friends elsewhere.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

THE attendance at the Episcopal convention
and Grand Lodge meetings of the Knights of
Pythias not sensibly diminished by the
simultaneous presence in the city of grand opera
Not all of US can be musical at a cost of So
night but there nothing in the way of becom-
ing religious or of joining a secret society.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

THE opera of "Lohenerin.p when given re-
Gently at Paris, lasted until A. NJ. Tho per-
Torrance consumed less time at Indianapolis.